The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-06-23
6UNBEAM6.

In ploughing and planting quarter &c.
ton Of land near Bethany, H. two farmers killed LEO
rattlesnakes some Of them big fellows.
Two gypsy girls, aged Is and Is years,
were sitting under tree near Boyertown, Pa, on Sun
day evening whenh struck by lightning They were
horribly burned and blood oozed from their wounda
They will probably die.
Lightning struck near q tree against
which negro boy leaning in Atlanta He whirled
around two three times and After runnfngsDms
distance stopped and through the spinning
motion. He has been crazed ever since.
Three months ago W. M. Murchison, who
had been time awoke In tho night and found
that his tongue parayzed, and that he could mot
swallow anything He has Just died after fasting ninety
days Up to short time before his death he was cheer
full, saying that he was quito willing to die.
The Philadelphia Crematory Association
has decided plans for It's crematOry building which
will be htty by ninety six feet in size ninety
feet in height and consists Of cremAtory chamber,
and over that chapel. The latter viii be thrtytwo
feet square and forty feet high Brick Ohio sandstone
and Iron will be the principal materials used
Fifty years ago Michael Schmidt, now q
well to do farmer St Louis to this country.
He then IL old When he cans of age he oe-
voting, and 1t not until the other day that no
learned that he ought to have taken out uralizstop
papers, He had thought that he citizen because
he this country before he 10 years old His
challenged He has become . citizen
according to law.
The most accomplished butler, valet and
maid combined ia Chinaman In the employ Of
the rich Timothy Hopkins Of California He wears an
Oriental costume Of silk Of great magniacence takes
Of Mr.. Hopkinss mansion In quiet unobtrusive
manner pleasing Is effective has charge OF tho
wardrobes OF Mr.. and Mrs. sHopkIns and when Mrs.
Hopkins dresses for ball lays out her costume selects
her Jewels and never makes blunder.
"A small boy, swimming with others In
the Erie Canal Clyde, suddenly yelled with visor
that 'so'thin had hold of him. He scrambled ashore
and the something proved 10 be small snapping turtle
that had grabbed him by the leg His beak had gone
through the skin and Of the flesh OF the boys leg
These animals let their hold while there lfe
In this the Jaws did not open till after the head had
been on The wound made by tho Turtles beak was
not very serious. The boy wrapped q handkerchief
around his leg and started for home carrying the turtle
The Workmen in MEXICAN silver mines
become skful In stealing silver that the owners en-
poy detectives work with them An owner tolls TINS
story: "one day detective came to me and SAID wheh
such and such men came out To examine thsr SahdAs'
had that done, On tho bottoms of the sandals was
what appeared 10 be mud but when IL WAS AeiaPsu 'o
q pan and worked found that II ran NJ the rate OF
s3Uo to the ton Ny miners had pastered INN layer
OF mud from the mine over the ieaiher anu men
sprnked the particles OF silver anu over All hAh pnt
another layer of mud They were working Tor s7A
day, and carrying out nfty cents worm Oh sFef
OIL the sole OF each sandal"
"A twenty-three foot vein OF what prom
isss valuable kind of fuel has been discovered at
Elsinorc. Cal, and II Is thought thai the whole valley
underlad with it. II described by the ReirS Of that
place ~ quite soft and easily worked when In Che mine,
but IL gets hard when exposed 70 the air It resembles
slate what In appearance although Of somewhat
lighter eolDr clean leaves no marks or stains on
the hand does slack cTumbe In the air, can be
split like mica very thin nbreA burns freely and
needs only TO be gutod with match smells like burn
ing rubber when being consumed, aud leaves behind
jet black resembling iampblAek In all It's ptoperea
Il is said to worth $40 per ton for making gas.
1t Is related that some Americans re-
Gently going through the JArdn des Planes Of Paris
stopped look at bg Tattlesnake In cage. IL lay
mOtoncs apparently asleep but when two OF the party
who fingered behind began to speak In English moved
lifted Its head, and gave sign Of Interest TheT
told their companions thai tho snake understood Eng
liSh The whole party then returned TO the cage The
snake apparently aheep again They e0nysrsed In
French but the snake made movement then the Ia
dies began speak EngSh The snake started hftod
Its head and showed the seEneSS before 1t the
sounds The rsttlssnAks proved w inquiry, ~ hare
come from Virginia.